Wellness Ready

Wellness Ready is committed to the wellbeing of horses and the prevention of laminitis. Thank you Equinnovate for sharing this information!

Everyone knows the textbook cresty-necked, obese pony EMS profile. However, lean Warmbloods, Arabians, and Quarter Horses with hidden insulin dysregulation (ID) present the truest diagnostic challenge.

By the time the classic laminitic stance or bounding digital pulses appear, significant structural lamellar damage is already underway. This damage rapidly becomes irreversible without immediate intervention. The weight of peer-reviewed evidence is clear: hyperinsulinemia is not merely a correlative risk factor; it acts as a direct driver of lamellar failure by disrupting receptor pathways within the lamellae.

The perennial hurdle? Convincing a horse owner to fund preventative endocrine testing when their horse looks fit.

Moving from subjective body condition scoring to objective, point-of-care data completely shifts the compliance conversation. The Wellness Ready Insulin Test delivers rapid, quantitative results right in the paddock. It gives you the immediate, hard numbers needed to implement targeted management adjustments and monitor dynamic insulin responses before clinical failure occurs.

👇How often are you identifying insulin dysregulation in horses that show none of the classic signs? Share your cases or clinical observations below.